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Keenleyside, Hugh L. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

550570

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1980-08-27

Item number (ISN):

550570

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1997-0459

Media:

Sound

Part:

4 of 4

Production date:

1980-08-27

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of Dr. Hugh L. Keenleyside, former ambassador to Mexico (1944-1947); Deputy Minister of Mines and Resources (1947-1950); Director General of U.N.T.A.A. (1950-1959); and Chairman of the British Columbia Power Commission (1959-1969), by author Peter Stursberg; about: Hugh Keenleyside; his family background; his childhood and education in Vancouver; his wartime experiences 1918; World War I; the 2nd Canadian Tank Battalion; trans-Atlantic troop transportation; the influenza epidemic of 1918; Hugh Keenleyside; his business experience; meeting his future wife; his trip to Britain in 1913; his studies at the University of British Columbia and at Clarke University; the University of British Columbia circa 1915-1927; Clarke University circa 1920-1923; the teaching of history in Canada; Canadian history; Keenleyside's experiences teaching at Penn State; Brown and Syracuse Universities; his marriage in 1924; his wife Catherine; teaching at the University of British Columbia 1925-1927; his decision to leave teaching in 1927; his experiences running a local newspaper, the Point Grey News, from 1925 to 1927; his children; his work for Macmillan Publishing Company in Toronto 1927-1928; taking the examinations for a job a the Department of External Affairs in 1928; his career with the Department of External Affairs 1928-1947; Dr. O.D. Skelton; the Department of External Affairs circa 1928-1947; Hugh Keenleyside; his appointment and experiences as First Secretary and Chargé d'affaires in Japan from 1929-1936; the Canadian legation in Japan 1929-1936; Sir Herbert Marler; R.B. Bennett; William Lyon. Mackenzie King; the building of the Canadian embassy in Tokyo; Keenleyside's return to Ottawa in 1936; his work in the External Affairs' American and Far Eastern Division; racism in B.C. circa 1935-1945; the expulsion of Japanese Canadians from the West Coast during the Second World War; the 1939 Royal Tour of Canada; Keenleyside's work with External Affairs during World War II; Norman Robertson's appointment as Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs; and Lester B. Pearson. <4h 7mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. First interview in a series of two.~3. Recorded by Peter Stursberg in Victoria for the joint Library of Parliament-Public Archives of Canada oral history project.~4. Consultation was closed until the publication of Hugh L. Keenleyside's memoirs.~5. Hugh L. Keenleyside died on 28 September 1992.~6. There is no release form on file at Library and Archives Canada for this interview.~7. Unpublished Crown material.~8. This material was originally acquired by LAC as a copy from loaned material in 1980. This is the original recordings. For the copies made from these recordings, see ISN 389306.

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Vault ISN:

880855

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

38474AV
38475AV
38476AV
38477AV

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

974698

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

550570-38474AV-1.WAV
550570-38474AV-2.WAV
550570-38475AV-1.WAV
550570-38475AV-2.WAV
550570-38476AV-1.WAV
550570-38476AV-2.WAV
550570-38477AV-1.WAV
550570-38477AV-2.WAV

Number of items:

8

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

38474AV
38475AV
38476AV
38477AV

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Under copyright

Copyright owner:

Copyright rests with the Crown.~Copyright administered by LAC.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with written permission of donorCopyright owner: Peter Stursberg

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